UP team wins second place in international climate solutions competition

Posted on September 21, 2022

A UP team has won second place in an international competition to find solutions to climate-related problems. ‘Team Tujenge’ developed a solar-powered water purification system using plasma technology to provide clean water to rural areas.

UP engineer develops a new off-road ABS algorithm

Posted on August 19, 2022

Considering the high impact that vehicle accidents have on human health, the recent progress within the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria into developing a new Antilock Braking System (ABS) algorithm that is particularly suited to bad roads and...

UP's Mechanical Engineering comes out tops in South Africa in latest Shangai Rankings

Posted on August 03, 2022

The University of Pretoria’s Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering has come out as the top Mechanical Engineering department in South Africa in the latest Shanghai Ranking.

UP academic wins NSTF-Water Research Commission Award at ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on July 22, 2022

UP Academic Professor Evans Chirwa has won the NSTF-Water Research Commission Award at this year’s ‘Science Oscars’. Congratulations Professor Chirwa!

Data science research at UP gets international recognition as academic receives Google AI Research Scholar Award for 2022

Posted on June 21, 2022

Congratulations to Dr Marivate for being awarded the GoogleAI Research Scholar for 2022 for his work on the investigation into the consolidation of learnings of language models and language tools for South African languages and beyond.

Nine UP academics nominated for NSTF/South32 Awards, SA’s ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on June 09, 2022

Earlier this month, the National Science and Technology Forum announced the finalists for this year’s NSTF-South32 Awards. UP congratulates and celebrates nine of our own researchers who have been nominated!

UP researcher leads the way to green hydropower for remote communities

Posted on October 04, 2021

The new plant was handed over at a ceremony that was attended by senior government officials, along with representatives of UP, the Water Research Commission, Mhlontlo Local Municipality and the Kwa-Madiba community.

Prof Meyer publishes new textbook on measuring in the thermal sciences.

Posted on September 14, 2021

Prof Josua Meyer of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria has co-authored the newly published textbook “The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences” together with Prof Michel de Paepe, professor of Thermodynamics in the Faculty of...